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Influencing looks like the new American Dream for young people. Universities are taking advantage
Influencing is Gen Z’s new glamour job. So if more than half of young people say they want to be influencers, why not study it?
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Economists and analysts kind of lost their minds about what they heard from new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh Wednesday. Or, more precisely, what they didn’t hear.
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War in Iran

Children wade in the water with cargo ships at anchor in the background and a fisherman nearby, in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, on June 30, 2026.
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The war with Iran has become a battle about a tollbooth. Free seas are at risk
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The world no longer has an oil problem. It has a gasoline problem
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A new front is opening in the Iran war. Oil faces ‘no way out’
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